What it means to identify as genderqueer
As the transgender community continues to fight its way into mainstream conversations, we recognize others who also fit outside the male-female binary, including those that identify as genderqueer.

Menstruation. Does it weird you out?
I've had this picture idea for a while but hadn't found the courage to do it, and although I think it turned out to be one of my best pictures I also think it may well be one of my most controversial.

7 unusual tips for mind-blowing sex
Mind-blowing sex is 10% technical skill, and 90% connection, presence, and emotionality. It's more about reading your partner, moment to moment, than it is about perfecting a specific hand technique

28 Dec 2014

When an orgasm is just not worth it
If you're having sex with someone and you don't get off, how often after the sex does the person immediately attempt to remedy that? Usually? Sometimes? Never?

Porn stars on the year in porn
This year was less about wild orgies and piles of cocaine, and more about the hard-working, business-minded adult star.

How sex scientists define asexuality
Asexuality exists on a spectrum that ranges from asexual to sexual, including people who are graysexual (only rarely experiencing sexual attraction) or demisexual (only experiencing sexual attraction after an emotional connection).

How to overcome sexual hang-ups
By talking to clients over the years, I've realised just how common it is that so many people have sexual hang-ups. Often they are insecurities, inhibitions, shame or situations that prevent them from having sex.

A short history of female ejaculation
Squirting may seem like nothing more than a muscularly impressive porn trope, but it is, in fact, at the apex of a centuries-old shit storm around female sexuality.

Statue has a massive penis bulge
A statue honouring the soccer playing, Cristiano Ronaldo, has either a really weird oversight or a great joke: the statue has a massive penis bulge. [photo]

Variety is the spice of humble moth's sex life
A small brown moth, the gold swift moth (Phymatopus hecta), has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world: its mating patterns and sexual positions are worthy of an insect Karma Sutra.

Representation in porn, or a lack thereof
I want to see porn with women, but who aren't skinny, young, white, conventional-looking, or going "ooohnnnn ooohhhhhnnn ohhhhhnnn" like seals throughout the movie

Is your favourite porn wow illegal?
New regulations mean female ejaculation, caning, and being weed on are now all illegal in online porn in the UK. So what does that mean for your favourite porn films?

Sex education in the afternoon delights
Prophylactics set the scene for the holiday-themed Sex at Lunch session, which a trio mounts approximately every two weeks for students in Grades 11 and 12 and sometimes Grade 10

The joy of sex
A survey of Americans has found that most have sex just a few times each year

Sleeping naked slashes risk of diabetes
A new study suggests that if you sleep in the nude could help slash your risk of diabetes, ward off infections, trim your waistline and make you feel more refreshed in the morning

The feminist pole dancer
I am a feminist (a feisty one) and a pole dancer (a sassy one). I don't consider these aspects of self to be in conflict.

A portrait of an intersex prostitute
I volunteered for an organization called Aspa?sie, which campaigns for the rights of prostitutes. That's how I met Claudette, who was both a member, and a prostitute herself.

How to have your kink and keep him too!
There's a perception that women are the ones who react with horror if their partner confesses a desire to do dark, dirty deeds. In reality, it's often men who are most threatened.

Porn ban goes too far
Britain's Deputy Prime Minister says politicians should have no role in deciding how people 'get their kicks' and should not 'stick their nose' into the bedroom

12 things we learned about sex this year
Over the year, we have gasped, squeaked and thumped our palm on our foreheads at some of the methods people have used, various sexual preferences and the sticky situations they have found themselves in

17 Dec 2014

Sex secrets of the past
I once had a girlfriend tell me she enjoyed oral sex, but wouldn't do it for me because she thought of me as a potential husband

France's military brothels
Prostitution and war often go hand-in-hand, where during the First World War, even the French government played a part in the sex industry, a legacy that continued almost to up to today

5 better (Swedish) terms for female masturbation
The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education asked people to come up with a better term for female masturbation. The five finalists, to be announced in June 2015, are: Klittra, Pulla, Runka, Scrolla, and, Selfa.

5 lessons learned from a sex class
Sex toy shops are selling more than just vibrators: some offer sex tips, tricks, and orgasm techniques too. Our writer shares what she learned from a sex class

Real Sex is easier to film than fake sex
Just in time for Christmas, here's an in-depth look at Hollywood's glitziest film about porn, Boogie Nights, wehre we learn that most of the non-porn actors avoided the porn stars like the plague

My first time: It's not working
My first time came a few weeks after my first kiss. The first semester of college found me more open and friendly than I'd ever been, and probably friendlier than I've been since

Why do people use butt plugs?
The 'how' is self explanatory: it goes up your bottom, if you were still unsure. But lots of people are left wondering 'why'?!

Famous steaker goes nude again
Thirty-three years after she ran topless across Twickenham stadium, becoming the most famous streaker ever, 56-year-old Erika Roe has agreed to reveal all, for charity. [more]

The Sex Summary of 2014
It's been one sexy year, from new revolutionary sex toys, to the return of Masters of Sex and a rather liberated Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, we won't forget 2014

We are all subs and bottoms
The contrast between our making love after doing it so far 6-7000 times over 15 years and a new boyfriend's making love with us the first, second or even third times, is utterly startling.

People who get turned on by bicycles
The genre of bike porn can be taken as literally or as figuratively as you like. Sex with bikes, sex on bikes, sex utilizing bike-related paraphernalia... With "pedalphelia

4 Dec 2014

Is sex with a circumcised man different?
Circumcision is a hotly debated sexual health issue, and now the Centers for Disease Control says benefits outweigh risks. But does the procedure impact your sex life?

New study examines casual sex lingo
Women who've had sex are better than men at deciphering the lingo for casual sexual relationships because of the greater risk uncommitted coitus poses to them, a new study says [more]

Isabella Rossellini on modeling, acting, 'Green Porno'
After 14 years as the face of Lancome, model and actress Isabella Rossellini, has crawled into her snail shell, mouse suit and various other costumes to perform in "Green Porno," her solo show about the sex lives of animals.

5 weird sexual fetishes
Sex is sometimes a very strange thing. There's different strokes for different folks, and then there's the weird fetishes that we've spent our afternoon reading about

Pakistan sex taboos challenged
Sex is a taboo word in Pakistan. It is readily associated with sin, guilt and shame. But a television channel is breaking new ground by airing a weekly call-in show discussing sexual health.

Naked and marooned for 60 days
Ed Stafford's challenge: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing -- no food, water, or even clothing -- except the video cameras he would use to document his time

Pornography, kids and sex education
More kids at ever younger ages are accessing pornography online, according to a range of international studies, but there's not much consensus about what, if anything, should be done by parents or teachers to address the issue

The limits of GGG
More kids at ever younger ages are accessing pornography online, according to a range GGG stands for "good, giving, and game", good in bed, giving equal time and equal pleasure, and game for anything. However, there are limits